I had this peak in my mind for a long time. Finally, made it. Went up North Pigeon Creek approach, and NW basin. Much technically easier than described.
Ran into Kiefer - he was on his way out and I was on my way in.
Also ran into Renata, another czech chick who completed her centennials with Pigeon.

Pigeon Peak handed me a full glass of "Shut the hell up." I seriously underestimated this peak. It kicked my butt. Probably one of the most scenic and demanding centennial peaks I've done.
Ran out of water going up and down this behemoth.
Luckily, there was a decent-flowing spring 1/4 the way up the west slope I was able to fill up.

I scrambled up to the ridge crest thinking I'd find a slightly harder way to the summit, 4th class maybe 5-easy. Got myself cornered into some hard 5th columns. Had to down-climb maybe 25' back to the slope & take the standard route up. Cost me about 30 minutes. This was a rewarding summit.

Shawn and I were determined to beat the storms so we left camp at Ruby Lake at about 1am. Unfortunately, we got turned around in the dark and started to make a direct assault on Peak Fifteen's north side. We realized our mistake and got on track to the Pigeon/Turret saddle, but it cost us time. Even "on track," we had trouble figuring out where the "grassy" sections were. There were a lot more willows to get through than expected. So Pigeon was more annoying than fun. The scrambling section consisted of mostly ramps zig-zagging up the last 200 feet. And getting there from the Pigeon/Turret saddle was tedious.

I did the brutally steep North Pigeon Creek ridge approach from the Ruby Creek trail as in Roachs' book. It took me 3.5 hours from Needleton to camp below Pigeon. 2 older climbers took 5 hours. The trail is not clear and a GPS unit was helpful going up and down. Routefinding up the slopes west of Pigeon was difficult in the dark since there's no trail and many rocks. There's a class 2 (maybe low 3) route all the way to the summit we found on the way down. We did one class 4 move on our route up. Took 3 hours up, about an hour down. Beautiful summit view!

Climbed from camp at 11,400 ft in Ruby Basin after a night of heavy rain. The peaks were socked in for most of the morning, and the rock on Pigeon was still wet and slippery complicating the scrambling near the top. There was also some rotten snow lingering that forced us onto slightly more difficult rock. No views to be had, but a fun climb.

too late for a good snow climb, too early for a snow free climb, but amazing! place, from the basin on the west you have to bushwhack in to. Camped in heavy winds with nothing but elk for company for 3 nights. nice!